Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Did the CIA Create Mind-Control Slaves?

Senator
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has accused the CIA of blocking a Senate
investigation into the CIA's use of torture at secret prisons they run in
other countries. What
else has the CIA been up to?

Just yesterday, a little storm of controversy erupted when U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) of blocking a Senate investigation into CIA torture
techniques.

Among other things, Feinstein is
concerned that the CIA made documents disappear, and spied on members of the
Senate Intelligence Committee.

I'm always interested when talk
turns to the CIA and what they've been up to. I'm kind of what you'd call
a "CIA buff."

And I can tell you this: anyone who worries that
the CIA disappeared some documents, or snooped on some Senators, hasn't been paying attention.

The CIA is a law unto itself.
The things that it routinely does with your money are almost beyond
comprehension.

Let's look at just one
well-documented CIA activity, shall we? It's relevant because some of the torture, or "enhanced interrogation" techniques Senator Feinstein is concerned about were developed during the episodes I'm about to describe.

The CIA Mind-Control Experiments

It is a documented fact that the
United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) engaged in secret and illegal
mind control experiments for at least 23 years.

The experiments officially ended in
1973, but may well continue to the present day. Interrogation and torture
techniques developed during the experiments were still in use after the year
2000 at numerous military prisons, including Guantanamo Bay and Abu
Ghraib.

One of the stated goals of the mind control
programs was laid out in a CIA memo from January 1952, which read:

"Can we get control of an
individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even
against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?"

The question that lingers is: Did it work?

The Early Years

In 1945, the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), which would soon be replaced by the CIA, began Operation
Paperclip, a program that tracked down and captured German scientists at the
end of World War II, then secretly brought them to the United States.

While many of the scientists were
experts in medicine, rocketry, aeronautics and electronics, some had been
involved in brainwashing and torture, especially on the doomed prisoners of
Nazi concentration camps.

In 1950, the CIA began Project
Bluebird, which was later renamed Project Artichoke, and grew directly from
Operation Paperclip. The purpose of the project was to develop "the
means to control individuals through special interrogation techniques,”
"ways to prevent the extraction of information from CIA agents,” and
"offensive uses of unconventional techniques, such as hypnosis and
drugs."

The project studied the use of
hypnosis, forced morphine addiction and withdrawal, and the use of other
chemicals to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects.

Project Bluebird researchers
experimented with a wide variety of chemicals, including the hallucinogenics
LSD and PCP, as well as heroin, cocaine, and ether. Researchers dosed
over 7,000 U.S. military personnel with LSD, without their knowledge or consent.

The Death of Frank Olson

One notorious incident happened in
November of 1953, when Frank Olson, a researcher in biological warfare at Fort
Detrick in Maryland, was slipped a dose of LSD in a glass of wine.

After ingesting the dose of LSD,
Olson suffered severe paranoia and a subsequent mental breakdown. The CIA
sent Olson to New York City to see a CIA psychiatrist involved in the mind
control experiments.

Nine days after being dosed, Olson
fell or was thrown from the tenth-story window of a Manhattan hotel. It
was only in 1977, 24 years later, and after the mind control programs became
known publicly, that the CIA admitted the circumstances surrounding Olson’s
death.

Sydney
Gottlieb, CIA agent and Director of Project MK-ULTRA

The man who slipped Olson the LSD was
Sydney Gottlieb, a CIA agent who would soon run something called Project
MK-ULTRA. Gottlieb, whose nicknames included “The Black Sorcerer” and
“The Dirty Trickster,” would receive the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal
for outstanding service upon his retirement in 1972.

MK-ULTRA

By late 1953, Project Artichoke had
morphed into Project MK-ULTRA, an effort that vastly expanded both the types of
mind control experiments conducted, and the sheer number of institutions and
test subjects involved.

MK-ULTRA used numerous methods to
manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the
administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory
deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of
torture.

Experiments took place at more than
80 institutions, including at least 44 colleges, as well as hospitals, prisons
and pharmaceutical companies. Thousands of American and Canadian citizens
were unwitting victims. Children were often taken from orphanages and
group homes for the purpose of experimentation.

Certain subprojects of MK-ULTRA were
particularly disturbing. Operation Midnight Climax, for example, took
place at a web of CIA safe houses in several cities across the United States,
including New York and San Francisco.

The CIA hired prostitutes to bring
clients back to the safe houses, where the unwitting clients were drugged with
various substances, especially LSD, then monitored through one-way
glass.

The CIA used the program to
pioneer sexual blackmail, surveillance and drug-assisted interrogation
techniques. Numerous victims died while in custody.

The director of that program, George
Hunter White, is on record as saying, "... it was fun, fun, fun. Where
else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage
with the sanction and bidding of the All-highest?"

Ewan Cameron and Subproject 68

In 1957, Scottish-born psychiatrist
Donald Ewan Cameron was hired by the CIA to carry out Subproject 68, which took
place at the Allen Memorial Institute, a psychiatric hospital on the grounds of
McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

By all accounts, Cameron was a
madman. His experiments were designed to “de-pattern” his victims,
erasing their minds and their memories, then rebuilding their personality in a
manner of his choosing. To achieve this result, Cameron went to extremes.

He used drug-induced comas, at one
point putting a victim in a coma for 88 days. He used high voltage
electric shocks, often administering up to 360 shocks per person.

He used isolation and sensory
deprivation, locking his “patients” in specially designed sensory deprivation
chambers for weeks at a time.

He also used rape and sexual
abuse. In at least one case, a child in his care was filmed having sex
with several high-ranking officials in the U.S. government, ostensibly to later
blackmail the men into continuing funding for the program.

In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms,
concerned that the program would be found out, ordered all MK-ULTRA records
destroyed. Most records were shredded.

However, 20,000 files were
mistakenly labeled as financial records, and were stored in another
building. These files survived, and were discovered in 1977.

In 1975, a Congressional committee
had investigated the program, and the files served as further confirmation of
its existence.

No one involved was ever charged
with a crime.

Present Day

Many people believe that MK-ULTRA
continues in some form to this day. Given the CIA’s dark criminal
history, and tendency to lie about and conceal its activities, there’s little
reason to believe otherwise.

It is well documented that during MK-ULTRA,
numerous torture and interrogation techniques were pioneered. And it was a stated goal of the program to create mind-control slaves. Many
believe that these mind control techniques were perfected.

In particular, it is believed that
mind control slaves can be created through repeated sexual, verbal and psychological
abuse when the subject is most vulnerable – during childhood.

Multiple personality disorder is
thought to be caused by severe trauma in childhood. It is thought that
multiple personalities can be created through deliberate abuse, with the goal
of creating personalities for specific purposes. When successful, the
victim can be “triggered” to become these separate personalities.

Now we get a little bit into
(egads!) conspiracy theory. While it is documented that the CIA engaged
in torture and sexual abuse of children, more than 90% of the documents related to MK-ULTRA were destroyed. There is no publicly available
documentation that mind control attempts of this nature have been successful.

However, many people believe that
mind control does work, and that mind control slaves are used for numerous
purposes, most notably as assassins, mass murderers, and sex slaves.
Individuals often thought to be victims of mind control include Sirhan Sirhan,
Mark David Chapman, John Hinckley, Jr., Anna Nicole Smith, and even Britney
Spears.

Q. Well, you've done it this time,
Patches, haven't you? I mean, they're going to kill you now.

A. Why? After all, I'm
just referring to documents that were declassified. The CIA itself
doesn't dispute most of this blog post. They just say it all happened in the
past. "Nothing to worry about. We're the good guys now."